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Wednesday, 6:15 p.m., Pristina airport. At every stop, Holbrooke holds impromptu press conferences to repeat the U.S. position to Kosovars: "We're trying to prevent this fighting from escalating into a general war," and autonomy, not independence, is the solution. His ability to work the media is legendary, but today false reports have gone back to Washington that his convoy has been shot at, and he has held an official meeting with the K.L.A., which would infuriate Milosevic. Standing on the runway, Holbrooke phones State Department spokesman James Rubin, catching him just before the daily briefing. The meeting with...
Shakespeare gets a more radical shakeup in R&J, adapted and directed by Joe Calarco. The setting is a regimented boys' school, where four students march onstage, recite their Latin and math lessons and then embark on an impromptu performance of Romeo and Juliet. They play all the parts, provide the sound effects (pounding fists, stomping feet, a slow hiss when a character dies), and manipulate the show's single prop: a red silken fabric that serves as, among other things, a shawl, a sword and a vial of poison...
With his squad trailing the 16th-ranked Tulane Green Wave 11-7 in an elimination game, Harvard Coach Joe Walsh called his team together for an impromptu huddle in front of the home team dugout at Louisiana State's (LSU) Alex Box Stadium...
While this anecdote speaks to the depth of Red Cross altruism, it may tell more about the woman who had the presence of mind to interrupt her speech for a bit of impromptu fundraising...
Many of us have had similar experiences--standard reactions to admitted Harvard undergraduate status seem to include: the impromptu vocabulary quiz, the "Wow, you must be really smart," and, for the comedian, the "Is it hard work there? Ha, ha," and the "Harvard? Never heard of it, ha, ha.' "If I had a nickel for every time somebody said, 'Oh, I've heard of that...'" adds Lidsky...